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    report taxes. Stripe tax does all of that

It doesn't say they file the taxes for you. "Speed up filing and remittance with comprehensive reports" means they will help you with it, but not do it for you. Later on the website : "Stripe reports surface all the information you need for each filing location, so you can easily file and remit taxes on your own, with your accountant, or with a preferred partner.

US filing partner TaxJar EU filing partners Taxually Marosa"

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Thanks, I updated my comment.

> It doesn't say they file the taxes for you

Yay for automation, but is using third parties to file taxes not open to fraud and potential error (if you don't do it yourself?)

Gusto files your taxes for you.

I pay TaxJar to prepare and file my sales tax returns for me.

Stripe just acquired them in April.

Literally all companies pay other people (accountants, lawyers) to do their taxes and in many cases they are third parties so no, that is not the case.

https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...

Not literally all. I can name several small businesses which do their own taxes.

-—> small <—-

Yes. The comment I responded to said "literally all companies", not "literally all large companies".

fwiw I upvoted you because I should have wrote "a vanishingly small amount of businesses, many who are probably screwing things up pretty badly"

I suspect that the majority of businesses are small enough that their taxes are trivial and pretty harmless -- at least if you weight by count. If you weight by size -- sure, most business is big business and has complex taxes.

They're just using the word "literally" in its ever more popular sense in which it does not mean that it really does apply to all companies.

For example, according to Oxford dictionary https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis... "used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not actually true in a literal sense" or Merriam Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally "used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible" ; in modern usage, "literally" can be it's own antonym and mean "not literally". Language is fun! :)

The redefinition of "literally" to mean "not literally" is an abomination and should not be tacitly accepted.

Yeah, but they would lose their license and customers and be sued for damages. The world is not a libertarian / individualistic wild west.

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